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Activist and author Angela Davis will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

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The #MeToo movement was originally created by social activist Tarana Burke 10 years before the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

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To the White, fauxminist Women For Trump, I’m done with y’all. I’ve never felt so betrayed, horrified and disappointed by a group of people in my life. Today, I feel like you slit my soul’s throat with your knife of privileged indifference. 53 percent of you voted for one of the most sexist, misogynistic, bigoted […]

Lena Dunham's comments about Odell Beckham, Jr. sparked a backlash on social media & exposed the continued over-sexualization of Black men.

One of the main ads shows an older White child leaning on the head of a Black trapeze artist, which ruffled the feathers of many.

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Saying he "did something stupid and wrong," the White president of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday apologized for making a sexist comment following a meeting on racial sensitivity, reports the Huffington Post.

Mazibuko said the scholarship was created to reduce the rate of pregnancies and keep the teens away from older men.

The stakes have never been higher, proving on the 43rd anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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After a long battle to include protective hairstyles for women of color in their uniform policy, the Marine Corps Uniform Board 215 decided to make the traditional hairstyles permissible options, as long as the styles are "professional and neat in appearance."

Grace Lee Boggs - a champion for civil rights, labor rights, feminism, and the Black Power movement - has died.

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Amber Rose has taken her role as a feminist to heights today when her Amber Rose SlutWalk swept through the streets of Los Angeles. An estimated 15,000 people were in attendance and the former stripper used her huge platform to smash stereotypes, denounce respectability politics and forgive two high-profile men in her life who used […]

President Obama on Saturday dedicated his keynote speech at the Phoenix Awards — a banquet to culminate the 45th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference — to the sacrifices Black women have historically made to advance this great nation, even without much recognition. In a speech that called for equal pay, fair policing and criminal justice […]